1. What are municipal franchises? Where are they?
2. What kinds of municipal industries have you seen in operation? How
successful were they?
3. What are the main arguments for and against the city ownership and
control of gas and waterworks?
4. What troubles arise from city politics?
5. Name the industries that are owned and controlled by towns and cities
of which you have a personal knowledge.
6. Which of them are most satisfactory in your judgment? Which the least
so?
7. What is the public sentiment in your home community as to the
ownership of industries by the town or city?
8. What forms of state activity favor survival of unfit men and bad
traits of character? What forms help the fittest to survive?
NOTE.--For exhaustive and well-arranged references on all
aspects of municipal control and municipal ownership see R.
C. Brooks, _Bibliography of Municipal Problems_, pp.
157-169, in _Municipal Affairs_, Vol. V, No. 1 (March,
1901).